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A Pin

A pin has a head, but has no hair;


A clock has a face, but no mouth there;
Needles have eyes, but they cannot see;
A fly has a trunk without lock or key;
A timepiece may lose, but cannot win;
A corn-field dimples without a chin;
A hill has no leg, but has a foot;
A wine-glass a stem, but not a root;
A watch has hands, but no thumb or finger;
A boot has a tongue, but is no singer;
Rivers run, though they have no feet;
A saw has teeth, but it does not eat;
Ash-trees have keys, yet never a lock;
And baby crows, without being a cock.

Christina Georgina Rossetti


In Christina Rossetti's poem "A Pin Has A Head, But Has No Hair," the theme is there will
always be someone who has more than you, but we all need to appreciate what we have.
Rosetti demonstrates personification throughout the whole poem. When she says a watch
has hands, but has no thumb or finger so she is giving a non-living thing a human quality.

lose time
1.
Operate too slowly. For example, My watch loses time, or This clockloses five minutes a day. This
usage is always applied to a timepiece.[Mid-1800s ]

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common hamster, black-bellied hamster (Cricetus cricetus), den in a cornfield on loess, Germany, North Rhine-Westphalia

The common hamster is a nocturnal or crepuscular species. It lives in a complex burrow system. It eats
seeds, legumes, root vegetables, grasses and insects.

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